Some Afghans starving amid the dire economic fallout resulting from the Taliban’s seizure of the country’s government last August have been forced to sell their “children and kidneys” in desperate bids to earn money for food, Sky News reported Friday.
“In our first few days in Herat, we’ve met whole families who’ve sold their kidneys so they can eat,” the British news outlet reported on January 28 after sending journalists to Afghanistan in recent days.
“In one case, three brothers and their two sisters told us they flogged [sold] their organs for around £1,150 [$1,583] apiece to buy food for the rest of the family,” Sky News relayed.
Journalists for the news site said they met an Afghan mother who claimed her toddler child recently “starved to death.”
“We’ve heard multiple parents tell us how they’re now resorting to selling their children,”…
